Latest comments posted about Taking the first step on ChinaDialogue en-gb http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1097-Taking-the-first-step http://staging.chinadialogue.net/images/cdlogo.gif http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/show/single/en/1097-Taking-the-first-step I see what you're saying Ross, but doesn't the power and reach of today's media demand a dramatic, global series of events in order to impact on peoples' consciousnesses. I wonder if it is going to do that completely successfully though? Comparing the global TV figures to those for last year's Live 8 is going to be interesting... -Dan H Thu, 21 Jun 2007 10:59:17 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1097#comment-3899 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1097#comment-3899 I agree that the basic premise of these concerts sounds good, if awareness-raising is the goal. But clearly the organizers came upon the dramatic, numerological scheme first and then thought about how to make it green afterwards. I wonder, with this as with many high-profile schemes to get people to go green, if the method is actually too global and too dramatic. Sparking a movement to have 700 smaller-scale concerts in people's hometowns on July 7 might be harder, and may sound less earth-shaking. But I bet it would be just as fun, and perhaps a better model for how the local and global levels should interact in the environment movement. -Ross P. Wed, 20 Jun 2007 20:05:54 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1097#comment-3894 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1097#comment-3894 The Live Earth concerts are admirable in intent, but shouldn't there be more debate about the means? After all, the end doesn't justify the means, often the means defines the end outcome. This seems particularly true in the case of climate change, where it's the unsustainable carbon-intensive model of development that is at fault. Perhaps we need to reconsider if a global concert, with its attendant air travel and sustainability questions, is really the way to organise an event on this warming planet? Tue, 19 Jun 2007 14:36:21 -0400 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1097#comment-3891 http://www.chinadialogue.net/article/summary/1097#comment-3891